Chocolate, cherry and chilli muffins.

This is based on a recipe I found a while back on the BBC Good Food website but I decided to spice it up as cherry, chocolate and chilli is one of my favourite combinations and Black Forest Gateaux is one of my favourite things ever.

If you don’t have any Krisch just use some of the syrup from the jar of cherries. Also your butter really needs to be soft, if it’s too hard you’ll just end up with icing sugar everywhere as I found out.

I used Lindt chilli chocolate but you can use what ever you can get your hands on.

Ingredients

425g jar of morello cherries, drained

100g chilli chocolate

1/2 tsp chilli powder

100g plain flour

160g unsalted butter

3 large eggs

120g icing sugar

50g cornflour

25g cocoa powder

2 tsp baking powder

4 tbsp Kirsch

300ml whipped cream

Method

Preheat oven to 180C.

Line a 12- hole muffin tin with paper cases.

Using an electric mixer beat butter and icing sugar until it looks pale and creamy